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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
[ Proverbs ]
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
[ Life and Living ]
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
[ Self-reliance ]
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For the dead there are no more toils.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
[ Action ]
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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
[ Uncategorised ]
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
[ Failure ]
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
[ Appreciation ]
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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
[ Purpose ]
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
[ Kindness ]
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
[ Possibilities ]
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
[ News ]
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
[ Kindness ]
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
[ Love ]
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
[ Honesty ]
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
[ Success ]
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
[ Gambling ]
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
[ Reason ]
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
[ Forgiveness ]
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There is no success without hardship.
[ Success ]
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
[ Conscience ]
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
[ Deeds and Good Deeds ]
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
[ Fear ]
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Truth is always the strongest argument.
[ Truth ]
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
[ Wisdom ]
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